Sandwich junior Cooper Corder got revenge for his lone loss of the season, taking down Unity Christian's Clinton VerHeecke in a 10-9 decision to win his first individual state title.

Sandwich junior Cooper Corder, Yorkville junior Donovan Rosauer and Yorkville Christian senior Jackson Allen all advanced to the state semifinals with two wins Thursday at the IHSA state wrestling meet in Champaign.

Yorkville junior Van Rosauer, who won the 150-pound sectional championship at the Class 3A Edwardsville Sectional with an overtime decision to qualify for state, is the Record Newspapers Athlete of the Week in an online vote. Here is his Q&A with Sports Editor Joshua Welge.

Here are the Record Newspapers-area qualifiers for the IHSA individual state wrestling meet.

Sandwich junior Cooper Corder is already a two-time state medalist. Now Corder is aiming for the top spot at the IHSA state wrestling meet in Champaign this weekend. He is among the area's top medal hopefuls with Yorkville's Van Rosauer and Yorkville Christian's Jackson Allen.

Yorkville Christian sent eight wrestlers to state from the Coal City Sectional, while Yorkville's Van Rosauer and Sandwich's Cooper Corder won sectional championships to lead other state qualifiers and Oswego East's Ella Cooper and Yorkville's Lauryn Trotter qualified for state.

Yorkville girls basketball dropped its regular season finale to Bolingbrook on Thursday.

Oswego senior Dillon Griffin was a state alternate last year, losing in the blood round at sectionals, but has been a warmup partner at state for two former teammates. Now he's chasing his own dreams for a bid to Champaign, among sectional participants this weekend.

Yorkville sophomore Lauryn Trotter won a regional title and two other Foxes and two Sandwich wrestlers advanced to sectionals, Oswego East girls basketball got a big win at Naperville Central and Yorkville Christian boys basketball won again in Saturday's roundup.

On a night when sophomore Ethan Vahl was honored for recently scoring his 1,000th career point, Oswego kept on rolling, scoring the game's first 10 points and going on to beat visiting Yorkville 56-43 for its 11th win in 12 games and 19th total win, most in a decade.

Macie Jones hit a go-ahead 3-pointer and another three during a pivotal second-half run, and Yorkville – down to six active players with four injured – rallied for a 51-41 win at Oswego on Saturday as part of the 15th Communities vs. Cancer event.

Joliet Catholic picked up a 63-5 win over Yorkville in the Class 3A Marmion Dual Team Sectional to advance to the state finals for the fifth straight season

Yorkville senior Danielle Turner was a state wrestling qualifier as a sophomore, but missed most of last year with a displaced patella, returning to come up a win short of state. She's healthy now, and has her sights set on a return trip to Bloomington.

Nicole Warbinski scored a career-high 20 points and Aubrey Lamberti also scored 20 in an Oswego East win, Ethan Taxis scored 21 in a Plano win, Ethan Vahl 17 in an Oswego win, Graham Martinson 14 in a Yorkville win, and Ashlyn Peterson 14 in a Yorkville win in Tuesday's roundup.

Yorkville wrestling, with eight regional champions and 12 sectional qualifiers, ran away with the team title at the Class 3A Moline Regional. Sandwich was second at the Class 1A Princeton Regional while Oswego and Yorkville boys basketball were both winners.

Yorkville senior Caleb Viscogliosi, who won the 175-pound championship at the Southwest Prairie Conference meet, helping lead the Foxes to their fifth straight conference title, is the Record Newspapers Athlete of the Week in an online vote. Here is his Q&A with Joshua Welge.

Yorkville, coming off its fifth consecutive conference championship, is set to start the wrestling postseason this weekend along with Oswego and Oswego East with a Class 3A regional at Moline, while Sandwich and Yorkville Christian have high hopes at Class 1A regionals.

Ethan Vahl scored 23 points to lead Oswego boys basketball past Romeoville, Joey Jakstys' 22 points paced Yorkville past Joliet Central, Oswego East lost to Joliet West on a buzz-beater, Plus Plano, Yorkville and Yorkville Christian girls basketball results in Tuesday's roundup.

Yorkville won the Southwest Prairie Conference boys wrestling championship for the fifth consecutive year on Saturday.

Braydon Porter scored 10 of his 12 points in the first half, including a monster dunk to start the second quarter that shook the basket support, and Yorkville went on to a 54-30 win over Minooka in the Southwest Prairie Conference.

Yorkville girls basketball and Newark boys basketball dropped games on Tuesday.

The Yorkville boys wrestling team beat Bolingbrook to clinch its fifth straight Southwest Prairie Conference title and run its conference win streak to 29 straight dual wins. That and more in Thursday's roundup.

Sandwich junior Cooper Corder records his 100th career win as he sets sights for season stretch run, Yorkville's Van Rosauer takes second at Cheesehead and Yorkville Christian getting healthy at the right time in Joshua Welge's Kendall County wrestling notebook.

Graham Schwab scored 20 points and Mariano Velasco a career-high 17 as Oswego beat Plainfield East in double overtime, Jayden Zepeda hit a buzzer-beater to lift Plano past Woodstock, Gabe Sanders' 17 paced a Yorkville win, and Yorkville and Yorkville Christian girls both won.

Cody Kulbartz and Reggie Chapman each scored 16 points as Newark rallied for a one-point win at Serena, Braydon Porter scored 20 in Yorkville's win over Plainfield North and Nick Michalek had a double-double in Sandwich's loss to Rochelle.

Joey Jakstys scored 19 points to pace Yorkville to a win at Plainfield East, and Oswego East and Oswego boys basketball and Yorkville and Oswego East girls basketball were also winners in Tuesday's roundup.

Yorkville senior Caleb Viscogliosi will play football at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville next year, but he wasn’t sure he was going to wrestle this season. There’s no doubt Yorkville wrestling coach Jake Oster and the Foxes are thrilled he’s returned.

Oswego's boys wrestlers took third at Wheaton Warrenville South's Ed Ewoldt Invite, Yorkville girls basketball beat Sycamore, Oswego boys basketball lost in double overtime and Sandwich boys basketball dropped one in Saturday's roundup.

Dshaun Bolden scored 17 points and Mason Lockett 15 to lead Oswego East boys basketball past St. Charles East into the second round of the Hinsdale Central Holiday Classic, Sandwich won a thriller at the Plano Christmas Classic and more in Saturday's roundup.

Josh Abushanab had 23 points and eight rebounds, and made three key plays in succession to help Glenbard West ward off a Yorkville rally als the Hilltoppers moved into the second round of the Jack Tosh Holiday Classic with a 53-43 win over Yorkville Friday.

Will Kaneland and Yorkville Christian meet in a Plano Christmas Classic finals rematch? Can Oswego East take the title at Hinsdale Central? And what about Oswego and York at the Jack Tosh Holiday Classic? We preview area holiday tournaments.

Oswego East junior Jacsen Tucker is one of the state's top baseball prospects, committed to Oklahoma State. But it's December, so he's all basketball. Tucker had 16 points and 10 rebounds to spark the Wolves' bounce-back 57-37 win over visiting Yorkville Friday.

Aubrey Lamberti had 23 points and 10 rebounds and Nicole Warbinski 17 points, and Oswego East put up 50 points in the first half and went on to a startling 70-31 win at Yorkville in the Southwest Prairie Conference.

A day after the IHSA announced that a proposal had passed to expand the football playoffs by 128 teams, Kendall County-area coaches reacted to the news. "More kids get a chance to play high school football one extra week.”

Yorkville Christian girls and boys basketball both picked up wins over Ottawa Marquette, plus Yorkville and Plano boys basketball results and Yorkville and Plano boys bowling results in Tuesday's roundup.

Jayden Riley's 36 points paced Yorkville Christian boys basketball past Lemont at the Team Rose Shootout, Ethan Vahl's 21 points led Oswego past Waubonsie, Yorkville boys wrestling won three matches at a quad meet and Oswego boys wrestling won two of three in Saturday's roundup.

Nate Kubin had a double-double with 14 points and 13 rebounds, a steal in the final seconds – and his first in-game dunk – and Joey Jakstys a steal off an inbounds and go-ahead score as Yorkville scored the final six points to beat visiting Oswego 46-43 on Friday.

Here is the 2025 Record Newspapers All-Area football team.

Senior Macie Jones made 10 of 10 free throws and scored 16 points to lead Yorkville to a 47-43 victory over Oswego in Southwest Prairie Conference action Thursday.

Newark boys basketball beat Dwight, plus Yorkville boys basketball and Plano girls basketball results in Wednesday's roundup.

Here is the 2025 Record Newspapers All-Area girls volleyball team.

The 2025-2026 girls wrestling season is underway. Here are previews of teams from around the Record Newspapers coverage area.

The 2025-2026 boys wrestling season is underway this week. Here are previews of teams from around the Record Newspapers coverage area.

Lincoln-Way co-op had seven wrestlers make their respective first-place matches to dominate the Minooka Thanksgiving Throwdown

Here is the 2025 Kendall County Record All-Area boys soccer team.

The 2025-2026 boys basketball season tips off this week. Here are five players to watch in the Record Newspapers coverage area.

As the 2025-2026 boys basketball season tips off this week, here are previews of teams from around the Record Newspapers coverage area.

Yorkville senior Owen Horeni, who finished third at the Class 3A state meet in a school record time of 14:07.46, is the Record Newspapers boys cross country Athlete of the Year. Here is his Q&A with Sports Editor Joshua Welge.

As the 2025-2026 girls basketball season tips off this week, here are previews of teams from around the Record Newspapers coverage area.

The 2025-2026 girls basketball season tips off this week. Here are five players to watch in the Record Newspapers coverage area.